Besik Kharanauli

Besik Kharanauli (; ; born 11 November 1939, in Tianeti) is a Georgian poet and writer.

Biography Besik Kharanauli Born in 1939, Tianeti, Georgia. In 1962 he graduated Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi University, the Department of Philology. After he worked the Literature and Art publishing hose and in the literary magazine Mnatobi.

Besik Kharanauli started his literary career in 1954. He is the author of more than twenty poetic collections and two novels.

Poetry by Besik Kharanauli is translated in German, Dutch, Italian, Czech, Hungarian, Russian, Bulgarian. In 2010 his long poem The book of Amba Besarion was published in France. In 2018 Poetry Collection by Besik Kharanauli 'Sprich mir vor, Angelina! Fünf Poeme' was translated and published by German Publishing House Dağyeli Verlag with support of the Georgian National Book Center, translated into German by Nana Chigladze and Norbert Hummelt. A second title 'Das Buch des Amba Besarion' (The Book of Amba Besarion) was translated in German by Julia Dengg and published 2021 by Dağyeli Verlag.

In 2011 and 2015 Besik Kharanauli was nominated for the Nobel prize for literature by the Georgian government. In 2015 he won literary prize SABA for the Contribution to the Development of Georgian Literature.

Books Translations from American, Intelekti Publishing, 2014, Poems 2003 – 2013, Intelekti Publishing, 2013, The Chief Gamer, Intelekti Publishing, 2012, Poems 1954 – 2005, Intelekti, 2012 Epigraphs for Forgotten Dreams, Sulakauri, 2005; Palitra L, 2010 Sixty Knights Riding Mules, Sezane, 2010, 100 Poems, Intelekti, 2007, Two Pages about the Sky and Earth, 2005 Amba Besarion's Book, Arete, 2003, An Afternoon Book, Nakaduli, 1991, Verses, Poems, Merani, 1988 Dictate, Angelina!, Merani, 1985 Agonic, Merani, 1991 The Lame Doll, Merani, 1973

Prizes and awards Literary award Saba, 2016 Literary Prize Litera, 2016 Honorary award Saba, 2015 for his Contribution to the Georgian Literature Literary Prize GALA, 2012 President's Order of Eminence, 2010 Literary Award Saba, 2004 Shota Rustaveli State Prize, 2002 The State Prize of Georgia, 1992 for his Contribution to the Georgian Literature